Business:
Pat reported that Gloria advised she is waiting on a new proof of the anthology from the publisher.
Ashley passed around a copy of the completed anthology she edited while at Westside Secondary School. The book is entitled "Abstract Ramblings of a tuesday Lunch Vol. 2". Also, she is going to U of T this fall so we will probably not see her until next spring. We wish Ashley well with her studies in languages.
Marilyn has been mentoring a 12 year old girl in writing. The young girl received an honorable mention at the Elora Writers' Festival and won a writer's award at school.
Clare submitted an article suggestion about birds of prey to Sideroads Magazine. This is expected to be printed in the Spring 2012 issue as he is still doing some research.
Reading:
After a month between meetings, several members had writing to share. Marilyn expressed how much she missed the writing group. Several echoed that sentiment.
Prompts:
Clare provided an audio prompt as well as written prompts. Below is the video of the song Clare played, "Anthem" by Leonard Cohen.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/_e39UmEnqY8"
The written prompts are:
2. Where do you store it? Write about something you own that someone gave you, but you're to embarrassed to wear or display.
3. Who gave you a bad piece of advice? Write about it.
4. Write about finding a rusty lock or rusty locket.
5. Write about one time you did something so well that you doubt you'll ever be able to repeat the feat.
6. Compare some part of your life to water in one of its many forms: Fresh, stagnant, steam, ice...
7. Who told you it was haunted? Write about a scary experience.
8. Why was it so great? Write about a gift you received (concrete or abstract) that you still consider one of the best gifts ever.
9. What's the best/worst thing about being the age you are now? Write about it.
10. So why did you laugh? Write about a time you laughed when you shouldn't have.
Danielle chose prompt #2; Kelli chose prompt #8; Joe chose prompt #9; the rest of the group wrote from the music.
Summary:
I cannot being to describe what people wrote from the audio prompt. I can only compel people to post their writings on this blog.
Clare pointed out that sometimes we are answering our own personal questions.
Judy said sometimes she gets tired of her own words and likes it when prompts come from passing around someone else's words.
In reading my writing from the audio prompt (which I will post here later), when I said "I am cracked," everyone laughed. I stopped and said, "That wasn't supposed to be funny." With that I lead you to prompt #10.
Our next meeting is Sunday, August 28th. Marilyn will be leading.
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3 comments:
Can't wait to come back for Aug 28th!
Lol, we certainly got a lot done. I really enjoyed getting together with everyone again.
Just as a correction though, I'll be attending York University, not U of T this Fall. No worries though, since half the time I interchange that with Glendon(the campus name).
I very much missed being at the meeting on July 24, sounds like it was a good meeting however we were in Washington DC in all that oppressive heat. It was a great visit except for the heat, but thank goodness for air conditioning we had some relief.
DC is a very historic city where one could spend many days taking in that ambience, along with the many great buildings if you like American history. We visited Gettysburg and New York City so the trip was a very busy one. One highlight for me was the Smithsonian Aerospace Museum near Dulles Airport in Virginia. That was aeronautical history!!
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